A nut to remember: The Piemontese Tonde Gentile
The humble hazelnut came under the spotlight at Cottage Vineyards’ ‘Four Hands’ dinner in Macau and Hong Kong, alongside some of Piemonte’s lesser known grape varietals.
The round, glossy nut which grows in the verdant fields of the Langhe – the Tonde Gentile – is behind the famed Nutella story, where a northern Italian farmer, Pietro Ferrero had so many hazelnuts he didn’t know what to do with them, and so created a cheap confectionary using a small amount of cocoa in the grim, post-war years in Italy.
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